Senior Finance Officer - TB & RSSH C19RM Grants at Leprosy Mission Nigeria

Reference Number: TLMN/NTLCP (PMU)_2025/SFO/001

Job Summary

• The Senior Finance Officer will provide support to the Finance Manager to ensure prompt disbursement and reporting both at the national and state levels of the TB/RSSH and C19RM grant implementation.

Key Responsibilities
Accounting System Optimization:

• Ensure compliance with NTBLCP and GF policies and procedures, systems, and practices. 
• Prepare quality Pulse Check, Progress Update and Disbursement Requests (PUDRs & PUs), SPGFS and other reports for Finance Manager review and Senior Finance Manager’s final approval.
• Process advances to implementers.
• Tracking and reconciliation of staff, SRs and implementers fund / advance balances. 
• Ensure proper review and prompt processing of payments.
• Collaborate with the implementing units to ensure timely reporting according to the signed MoU.
• Prepare payment schedule for review by the Finance Manager and Senior Finance Manager’s final approval .
• Handling the timely preparation and remittances of taxes due, WHT, Pension deductions and filing of tax returns to relevant tax authority within the time stipulated by Law. 
• Carry out high level review of adjustment journals, expenditure retirements, travel advances and authorization worked on by Finance Officers for accuracy. 
• Review transactions created by the Finance Officer in FMIS before posting into the GL.
• Appropriate and accurate filling of all transactional documents, financial vouchers, and journals.
• Organize regular finance related capacity buildings.
• Preparation of required special purpose reports as at when due e.g. Dashboard Report to CCM, Government Report to OAGF, KPI, and so on.
• Carry out data integrity test on the FMIS regularly to ensure up to date/correct financial information which is report ready.
• Undertake regular financial verification visits to the implementers to confirm the adequacy of supporting documentation, the accuracy of reporting and the adherence to NTBLCP policies and donor guidelines.
• Follow up to promptly resolve audit queries.
• Carry out other duties that may be assigned by the Finance Manager and/ or the Senior Finance Manager.

Finance and Programme units’ relationship:

• Drive regular communication of grant performance (in understandable financial form) to various programme units at regular interval.
• Support the programme units to understand alternative use of available/idle grant fund and follow up to ensure prompt reprogramming of fund / budget revision.

Budgeting and Budgetary Control:

• Play leading role in budgeting sessions during grant making.
• Play leading role in budget revision processes.

Education and Work Experience Requirements

• S/he must possess HND/BSc in Accountancy/Finance or related discipline.
• Professional Certification (ACA or ACCA or related certification) is required.
• Minimum of 7 years working experience in Grant management, or health sector of an NGO.

Desired Competencies:

• Experience in financial transactions review and posting into FMIS preferably in Microsoft Navision would be an advantage. 
• Experience and/or understanding of flow of funds and associated risks associated with Grant management would be an advantage. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent technical, written and presentation skills are highly desirable.
• Ability to work as part of a team and to be self-managing.
• Must be computer literate with experience in an Accounting Package, MS Office-Excel especially, with ability to use computer applications for data collection.
• Excellent interpersonal and team building skills.